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A couple of weeks ago, I returned to Sweden with the night train from Berlin via Sassnitz. On the way to the ferry, I saw several clusters of what looked like radio masts or similar, blinking in sequences with a red light.

Since it was a November night, it was impossible to see if it was indeed masts, or if it was chimneys, but I never saw any smoke (although it looked like some power station thing as far as lights go). There were LOADS of these things and all blinking in a sequence which gave a very spooky effect when seen from a train.

The train was too fast for me to see what every little village was called, but the first of these (I saw a couple) was just north of Neubrandenburg.

What did I see??? :)))

Could they have been wind-farm turbines?

If the lights weren't actually blinking (although I suspect they would be anyway), it could've been the blades passing them by.

Jem

wind energy converters
http://www.wind-energie.de/images/einstiegsseiten/europe_750.jpg
There are loads of them, e.g.
http://www.huebner-berlin.de/applications/windpark/windpark.jpg

Modern ones have rotor diameters of 80m. The newest one has 127m rotor diameter.

Aha!

Sure, I know there are loads of wind farms in Germany (and in Scandinavia for that matter) but I have never seen them in that huge a cluster in the dark. The ones I see from the bridge in Copenhagen never blink like that all the time. This was really as if the aliens had landed :)))

That's what it must have been though - mystery solved :)

posted so as check out web sites later

Hi
I used live just north of Neubrandenburg, in the seaside town of Ueckermuende. It could have been a few things. There is a large military base in the woods near Torgelow, so it could be related to that. Alternatively, could you have seen lighthouses? I know there are a fair few along the coast, as well as lighted buoys. There are also quite a few wind turbines in that part of the country.